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New comment by spyremeown in "uBlock Origin 1.50.0"

spyremeown — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:23:10 +0000

> I'm currently running thunderbird in a docker image

Why?

New comment by spyremeown in "The Linux kernel will fix some peculiar argv usage in execve(2)"

spyremeown — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:03:44 +0000

I, for one, would love for the Kernel to tell users to f themselves sometimes an break compatibility. In that order.

New comment by spyremeown in "The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer"

spyremeown — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:57:15 +0000

Is 499 EUR for that BOM fair? Genuinely asking... high end SoM modules with carrier boards and a metric ton of software can be obtained by half of that price, and op-amps aren't that costly.

New comment by spyremeown in "K0smotron: Running Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes"

spyremeown — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:25:01 +0000

Look... I'm a Kubernetes dude through and through. I put Kubernetes in small embedded devices to control factory shops, so, I'm a fan.

But let's all agree this maybe is a tad much, shall we?

New comment by spyremeown in "Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira"

spyremeown — Wed, 31 May 2023 01:13:31 +0000

Please, kill Jira and Confluence. I hate Atlassian tools so much. The user interfaces are sluggish no matter the hardware you're using... it's a shame it became almost a standard in our industry.

New comment by spyremeown in "DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices"

spyremeown — Wed, 24 May 2023 21:22:50 +0000

Other comments have put better than I could, but I'll add that what people call ecosystems nowadays is completely unthinkable in embedded. Sometimes you have critical applications and you bet you need to certify every single line of code that goes into your application. Small embedded devices are more geared towards engineering than other kinds of development, and in my opinion that's why applications work well, in comparison with the mess we have in the web nowadays, for example.

New comment by spyremeown in "Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun approach to cleanup"

spyremeown — Wed, 24 May 2023 21:16:39 +0000

>So people who make money from collecting them don't have to dig in trash. Pure humanity.

I've lived in Germany, and this was one of the things I quickly adopted after seeing the locals doing it. An interesting anecdote is that can/bottle collectors always approached me asking if I'm finished with my drink (I had a drink outside almost daily), but I never felt threatened or anything. They were generally super polite, I'd usually reply with "I'll leave it here" and they went along their way. Very different experience than anywhere else!

New comment by spyremeown in "DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices"

spyremeown — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:14:44 +0000

The truth is: we, actual embedded developers, much rather compile a LUA interpreter and stick it in there and be done with it.

New comment by spyremeown in "Embedded Systems – Shape the World (2014)"

spyremeown — Sat, 20 May 2023 12:29:48 +0000

We are slowly getting better at this. Most embedded Linux companies for example have shifted or are in the process of shifting to an upstream-first policy. A lot of the toolchains are open, busybox is used everywhere. A lot of the really good HALs are open source. We're getting there!

New comment by spyremeown in "The Case for Bash (2021)"

spyremeown — Thu, 18 May 2023 10:59:41 +0000

>I would recommend learning and using sh unless you really need Bash.

I don't buy this argument. Ok, it's a standard, but sometimes it's a pain-in-the-hole standard. Bash augmentations lessen some of the pains, and it's just nicer. The only situation is if you're using busybox in a very limited system or you reeeeeally need your script to run on many difference unices, which let's be honest, is not that common nowadays.

New comment by spyremeown in "CI/CD with KiCad and Gitlab"

spyremeown — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:44:45 +0000

Very cool!

Does anybody know something like a translator tool between all the different `yaml`s different CI/CD services use? Or maybe some metalanguage specifically made for that that can run instead of whatever hell dash/bash is.

I wish I could just jump ships altering a `script` tag in whatever `yaml` from whichever service.

New comment by spyremeown in "The Erasmus Network"

spyremeown — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:05:31 +0000

Map is not loading for me. Maybe it got hugged to death?

New comment by spyremeown in "GitHub code search is generally available"

spyremeown — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:39:07 +0000

>Without code search, you might have to clone a bunch of repositories and grep through them

Why is this an issue? I do have a clone of all my company repos, doesn't everyone? Memory is cheap and ripgrep/ag are fast.

New comment by spyremeown in "The Framework Laptop 13"

spyremeown — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:10:07 +0000

Alpine, Debian and Arch have never given me a miss regarding packaging for arm64/hf. And I work specifically with embedded Linux using those distros as a base.

New comment by spyremeown in "Why I develop on Windows"

spyremeown — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:44:03 +0000

I wish it was just a matter of the `-` thing... Debian metadata (control, rules...) and its build system (sbuild, rebuild) is arcane and feels old. Having to maintain a Debian feed is a major PITA.

New comment by spyremeown in "You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering"

spyremeown — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:23:10 +0000

Did we have "search engineers" back when search engines and indexers were first created?

New comment by spyremeown in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

spyremeown — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:52:25 +0000

This is awesome. Really nice!

New comment by spyremeown in "How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)"

spyremeown — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:40:42 +0000

It's not really over complicating anything, though? It makes perfect sense, it's not hard to understand. Nested VMs have been a thing for a looong time. I honestly don't understand where the criticism for Docker and k8s comes from. Some of HN comments sound like old men shouting at the clouds because they don't understand modern technology and its purposes.

If you want, go right ahead with your managed, on-site VMs where you copy a .php file to an Apache server using a thumb drive and restart the service. I don't care. But that's not how modern teams are working.

New comment by spyremeown in "How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)"

spyremeown — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:37:06 +0000

Kind is super cool! I used it for my thesis, as I needed many nodes without getting super into k8s configuration. I love, love kind. If you're into learning Kubernetes, it's probably the easiest way to get yourself a cluster quickly.

New comment by spyremeown in "The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI"

spyremeown — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:51:56 +0000

>So many of the smart, lovely people you meet here are stuck on absurdly low salaries

Let me tell you about third world countries...